Extracts from Mass in C: a dramatic poem taking
from the latin text of the mass Triggered by performances of the
Bach mass in B minor and the Mozart mass in C minor. Performed
as a dramatic scene in London set to electronic music by David Cain.
I could call it “a mass for our times”. For brevity I have omitted
the full text but it is available for performance or for setting to
any form of modern music.

And a Happy Christmas to all, Celebrating
the festive season, The essence of which seems to obstinately
elude the decision makers in an increasingly violent World.

A Quote from Ghandi:

“There is no way to peace.
Peace is the way.”

IN THE BEGINNING... THERE WAS NOTHING... there was
everything in pure energy

enormous energy falling from
grace, dissipating attention, losing balance, energy became
matter in a great fall into implosion explosion and the big bang

Kyrie eleison

a universe is born

Kyrie
eleison

and life was born in defiance of the laws of
physics

......... innocently!

Generating energy to
defy the laws of physics continuously or die

Kyrie eleison

..and a miracle consciousness burst on the scene ..and
was named man and woman ..

not angel, not devil, not
programmed insect in bliss not machine not even unpredictable
restless atom .. ... MAN ..

lawless unpredictable
restless cursed, blessed man ...and he knew ...and was
afraid he knew ... half truths and believed them to be immutable

the mountains are mountains are mountains are mountains
then the mountains are NOT mountains then the mountains are
mountains are mountains mountains mountains

he knew and
was afraid and accursed... and he always got stuck on the road
half way, with half truths .....and was more afraid

locked in an eternal circuit: from panic to manufactured
peace to panic

GREATER THAN THE LAWS OF NATURE NURTURE
GENETICS AND PHYSICS

VULNERABLE TO ALL

WEAKER THAN THE ANT

Kyrie
eleison

Man's is the eye that maketh and has made and
man is bewildered, MISINFORMED, abused, vulnerable, afraid

and we killed the son for the father
Lord have mercy upon us we are afraid LORD HAVE MERCY UPON
US GIVE US GRACE

Qui tollis peccata mundi miserere nobis

Lord receive our prayers DO NOT LIVE Lord have mercy
upon us DO NOT LIVE Lord relieve us of our sins DO NOT
LIVE Lord give us PEACE

DO NOT LIVE WE WANT GRACE
like the angels

Qui sedes ad dextram patris miserere
nobis

Lord we want you safe and dead.. ..for our
comfort..HAVE MERCY UPON US

...DIE please..and be WORSHIPPED
AND BLESSED..

For thou only art holy thou only art the
Lord thou only art most high

..and the knife of fear
killed the son again..

and in his death he was worshipped
above all things

and was reborn ..and begged his
worshippers for a kiss..

..and they closed the door

for it was a day of worship and they wished to celebrate
and pray..

...and he died again alone and without
hate

Quoniam tu solus sanctus tu solus altissimus

..........THEY PRAYED ..........and they worshipped..

Cum sancto spiritu in gloria Dei patris

Amen

....they prayed .......and they worshipped ...and he
died alone...

Dona Nobis pacem (there is no way to
peace, PEACE IS THE WAY “Ghandi”)

that which makes the seed
flower that which makes the sperm struggle that which makes
GROW.. help us come to you help us love you and the
sperm said and the flower...

let no man kill another
for in the other he kills part of himself

give us the
courage not to kill.. give us the courage not to NEED to kill..
give us the ingenuity to surmount the need to kill give us
the courage to BE YOU ......without hate and to neutralise
and disempower the life-haters and the dead ..........without
hate ....and give us peace.........

GIVE US PEACE

...give us peace that is the love of all things ..give
us peace that is the love of all things known and unknown not
the peace which is the nothingness of the literal law

....give us the whiteness that is the harmony of all colors

not the whiteness that is the rejection of all colors

..and let the whiteness of nothingness meet the whiteness of
all things...in a gentle kiss.. ......and give us peace.....

..........FOR IN THE END..... THERE IS NOTHING .....AND
EVERYTHING.....

while the world of men grows larger and
safer for the children to love and play and grow and sing!